translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה ( hinneh ) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.


text: Heb “the man of God.”


text: Heb “came by the word of the Lord to Bethel.”


text: Heb “by the word of the Lord. ”


text: Heb “gave.”


text: Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”


text: Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן .


text: Heb “The king answered and said to.”


text: Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8 ).


text: Heb “house.”


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Heb “and his son came and told him.” The MT has the singular here, but several other textual witnesses have the plural, which is more consistent with the second half of the verse and with vv. 12-13 .


text: Heb “all the actions which the man of God performed that day in Bethel, the words which he spoke to the king, and they told them to their father.”


text: The Hebrew text has “and his sons saw” ( וַיִּרְאוּ [ vayyir ’ u ], Qal from רָאָה [ ra ’ ah ]). In this case the verbal construction ( vav consecutive + prefixed verbal form) would have to be understood as pluperfect, “his sons had seen.” Such uses of this construction are rare at best. Consequently many, following the lead of the ancient versions, prefer to emend the verbal form to a Hiphil with pronominal suffix ( וַיַּרְאֻהוּ [ vayyar ’ uhu ], “and they showed him”).


text: Heb “I am unable to return with you or to go with you.”


text: Heb “and he said to him.”


text: Heb “and he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water.”


text: The Hebrew text has “because” at the beginning of the sentence. In the Hebrew text vv. 21-22 are one long sentence comprised of a causal clause giving the reason for divine punishment (vv. 21-22 a) and the main clause announcing the punishment (v. 22 b). The translation divides this lengthy sentence for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “the mouth [i.e., command] of the Lord. ”


text: Heb “and you returned and ate food and drank water in the place about which he said to you, ‘do not eat food and do not drink water.’”


text: “Therefore” is added for stylistic reasons. See the note at 1 Kgs 13:21 pertaining to the grammatical structure of vv. 21-22 .


text: Heb “and after he had eaten food and after he had drunk.”


text: Heb “and he saddled for him the donkey, for the prophet whom he had brought back.”


text: Heb “Look, men were passing by.”


text: Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”


text: Heb “the man of God.”


text: Heb “the mouth of the Lord .”


text: Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”


text: Heb “the corpse.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“it”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.


text: Heb “the prophet.” The word “old” has been supplied in the translation to distinguish this individual from the other prophet.


text: “They” is the reading of the Hebrew text here; perhaps this is meant to include not only the old prophet but his sons (cf. v. 31 ).


text: Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord ”


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Heb “did not turn from his evil way.”


text: Heb “and one who had the desire he was filling his hand so that he became [one of] the priests of the high places.”


text: Heb “house.”